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Re: My Hero Academia II - A Horikoshi series that actually made it to a second thread

Yah, using Dawn as an example, when the whole point is that she was popped into existence it's not the best "organic introduction of a character" example.

Those days were weird, at first you'd guess that she had gone with the dad and just returned, after 3 years, but suddenly everyone knew her, and she knew of everything that happened. In the end it mostly worked, but at the moment was weird.

Re: My Hero Academia II - A Horikoshi series that actually made it to a second thread

I don't see the problem at all, My Hero Academia can easily surpass 500 chapters without becoming boring.
None of the students has a complete character arc just yet, and those that got more focus more than the others still have room for development. And that's only talking about class 1-A, 1-B are comparatively shafted and should definitely get more spotlight someday.
And there's also the League of villains, which despite their recurrence in almost every arc so far, they appear to have more to them than what was already shown, and it seems they'll only grow bigger going forward.
Speaking of villains, more groups and independent villains will be introduced for sure, as well as heroes, these could potentially play integral roles in upcoming arcs.
The single biggest problem the manga might face is the future of the school activities, which is pretty questionable because the manga is showcasing each one of them in the first year. That might leave some people wondering what more could the manga show, especially considering interrupting them won't be very surprising as most of them was interrupted in previous arcs already. There's also the looming threat of cancelling all the public activities if villains show up in one.
For starters, the manga can easily repeat the same activities, this time with minor changes that will cause major changes on the plot itself. For example, the second sports festival can have all the hero schools across the country joining in, maybe even let foreign schools participate. Or perhaps let the next trips be in more grandiose places, like floating cities or underwater cities, I know those sound like a stretch in the academia-verse, but they can simply be man-made with strong quirks keeping them stable the way they are. These extreme versions of previous arcs will most likely be much longer, and that can let the manga skip the events that could get stale if repeated like the exams without rushing the second and the third years.

Re: My Hero Academia II - A Horikoshi series that actually made it to a second thread

The school setting is what keeps it fresh and once its past that it turns into most american comics.... but since it IS a self contained series and not a muli-generational ongoing collaboration perpetuation machine where status quo is god like American comics, it could certainly do bigger more permanent changes to the status quo. Take a look at something like Invincible and how radically it changed every couple years... or like the web serial WORM which managed to keep escalating until it brought in the Endbringers and then eventually the end of the world. There's ways and places for it to go.... though a title change might be in order when that happens.

Originally Posted by desa

I don't believe one second it will go beyond the school. It changes to much of the actual format of the manga and the setting the mangaka gave himself. It's a main cast and it isabout their inexperience. One you are passed those school years you can easily cap it of with Deku discovering the kind of hero he will be and going into a new journey.

Dragonball had Goku grow up, get married, and have a kid. Radically different from what came before and yet...

Re: My Hero Academia II - A Horikoshi series that actually made it to a second thread

Originally Posted by Robby

Dragonball had Goku grow up, get married, and have a kid. Radically different from what came before and yet...

I might be wrong but I feel the author is less erratic than Toriyama was and likes to play it safe. Toriyama needed to constantly change while I feel he has a clear of what he wants to tell as a story and I doubt it is Deku as hero but rather kids learning to be heroes.

At best I can imagine a sequel series where he gets to change all the cast except Deku. His sidekicks/employees would be the new main cast with him. But I don't picture him cutting the current cast out and I think he would want to keep the school settings to keep them.

Also his fear of cancellation makes it unlikely he planned something that far away in my opinion. I picture school as the journey and the rest as the untold stories.

Re: My Hero Academia II - A Horikoshi series that actually made it to a second thread

Hmmmm . . . . well:

Spoiler:

He didn't die, right? If Gentle surrenders, what possible relationship could that create in the future? Will he become an accomplice of Stain? Become an ally of the students? Get sucked into the warp hole that is All for One's plans?